The ballad was first published by Sir Walter Scott, under the title 'The Laird of Lamington,' in the first edition of the Minstrelsy, 1802, I, 216. This copy was fashioned by the editor from A and B. Scott's later copy (Minstrelsy, 1803, 1, 238; 1833, in, 122) is chiefly made up from A, B, and C. 'Lochinvar,' in the fifth canto of Marmion, was modelled on 'Katharine Jaffray.' The lover is called Lochinvar in several versions of the ballad. Another ballad, much later and inferior, in which a lover carries off a bride on her wedding-day is No, 254.
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